> Typekit lets users choose the fonts they want to use (the number of fonts per site depends on the price plan chosen) and embed them using the web standards compliant @font-face CSS declaration and a bit of Javascript.

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/11/typekit-launches-hopes-to-s...

I was under the impression that they simply wanted to be able to charge a yearly subscription to use the font like this, which is apparently how Typekit's model works.

Adobe thereby doesn't directly license you this font for web font usage: instead it works through a couple partners, including Typekit, to distribute it.

> With help from one of our trusted web font partners you'll be able to deliver type to your website that is searchable, editable and viewable without compromising the high performance and selection that you demand for your viewers.

http://store1.adobe.com/type/webfont/info.html

Adobe is working with another partner, however: WebINK. In Adobe's Web Font FAQ, there is a question "what if I hand code my website", which seems to indicate WebINK lets you just work with @font-face directly.

> With WebINK, web fonts are integrated using the standard CSS @font-face rules. If you are familiar with the basics of CSS, you can easily integrate Adobe Web Fonts into your website with Extensis WebINK.

http://www.adobe.com/type/webfont/faq.html

The answer, thereby, to how expensive it would be to license this font for @font-face use seems to either be "exactly what you already are paying Typekit" (as/if they use @font-face) or whatever WebINK charges.

From WebINK's website, they seem to charge by the number of unique visitors per month; their tiers are $20/20k, $50/80k, and $120/200k, with a "contact us" if you are expecting to get many more users than that.

http://www.webink.com/pricing

(I know about some of this, because the small college I went to uses Minion as the official font for its title, and I was helping them out with a website redesign a while back.)

http://store1.adobe.com/type/webfont/index.html